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W. S. ANDERSN.

I Car Coupling.

Patented Aug. 4, 1868.

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Be it known thatI, WILLIAM S. ANDERSQN,6 the townot Shelbyville, county of Bedford, and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and useful machine, viz, a combination for saving and' coupling railroadcars, to be knownbypthe name of the Independent Self-Coupling Machine -for. railroad-cars, combinedwith the car-saving machine; and I do hereby declare that thetollo'wing is a full and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making, a part of this specication, iu which Y I -Figure l is an inside'view, and

Figure 2 a front View of the-independent self-coupling machine; and l Figure 3 is a. front view of the car-saving machinejwhen ready for use, and

Figure l is a side view of the same, and

Figure 5 is a centre view when broken. v

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

.1. The independent self-coupling machine. V Y

The frame that receivesthe coupling-plate-or coupler," which is also the car-saving machine, and .represented by the letter F, is an oblong square, representedl by the` letter A, and is to beffastened to the end of each car, and at one endhas an opening, into which thercoupler attached to the advancing car enters, and is made secure, as hereafter described, and upon this isplanted aperpendicular frame, letter B, in which isV the couplingmachine, letter'C, and consisting of the following parts, and located as follows when ready'to receive the coupler. The lower part consists .of a square block, which is attached to the upper block by a hinge opening out in 4an angle in l,the backside of the perpendicular frame, and forming a mitre-joint at the centre ofthe hinge,

letter B, Aand the lowerend of -thislbloclc resting immediately opposite the opening in the frainepletter A, 'and the two blocks combined constitute a lock-lever.

Through vthe centre-of the upper block is a mortise, through whicluwith the opposite sides of the frame, passes'a'rod, upon whichv thelevei'plays up and down, making its angles,V and at the upper end of this;b; l'ock is a mitre, and attached to it is another block, styled holtbearer, letter D,\passing horizontally through the npper'part of the front side of thevperpendeulaij frame, letter B, lto which is attached, at this opening. in the frame, one 4end of a spring, the'ctherh'eing fastened tothe-inside of the front of 4the frame, letter B.- *l

Passing along the outside oilthe''ront of the frame, letter B, is a boit-,v-letter E, at the upper end of which I is a head resting upon the bolt-bearer, with a piece of iron fastened to `'the headyand-tpassinglt'hrough a. mortise in the front top of the frame te thctop of the car, Athe bolt, passing perpendicularly down from the boltbearer through a block fastenedto the perpendicular frame, and then through the upper side of frame,.letter A, rests over the opening to receive the coupler, as above describedf Non', with the parts described, as the machine. stands ready to receive thefcoupler, letter F, I proceed lto describe hour it acts when the coupler, attachedto an advancing car, enters the opening in frame A.y

One end of the coupler being attached to the advancingI car, the other end is then so elevated asl to pass through the opening in frame the mortise in the coupler being immediately under the lower end of the bolt above described, and, striking the lower end of the lower block ofthe within machine, as -above described, forces it back, thereby causing'the spring attached to the vbolt-bearer to force in the bolt-bearer, so as to relieve the bolt resting upon it as above' described, and permitting it to drop until the hea-d rest-s upon the block, through which it passes just below the bolt-bearer, the lower end passing perpendicularly through the opening v in frame A, and through-the mortisei-n the coupler, thus fastening securely the two cars.l I-f, then, you wish to relieve the cars, it can be done from the top of the car by raising the bolt E; by .the piece of iron attached to itshead, as above described, without danger to any one, andthe coupler will then slipl out and remain attached to the receding car. I

II. The car-saving machine.

This consists of the above coupler, which consists of two equal parts', which-are locked in'the centre by side or dove-tailedl tenons, with mitre-joints. Immediatelyl above Where these two pieces are united is a clasp,

which is fastened sideways and lengthways to the coupler, and with a bolt passing through the clasp and. each one of these pieces, and fastened on the opposite side, the bolts and clasps being sutliciently strong to hold the pieces together for all practicable purposes. V v v Now, it is claimed for this invention that it will save the cars attached lto a train in motion in this Way,

that if one of the cars, when'in motion, should break down, its Weight would break the bolt and clasp and sunder the pieces ofthe coupler, thereby relieving the cars in lfront of tlie one bri'eaking; or, if one of the cars should be thrown from-the track, its v pon'derous weight would again sever the-pieces, relieving the rest ofl the train, and thereby keeping it lon the track, so that whether -it be a side or perpendicular face, the weight of the car would .wrench apart the pieces; and relieve the other.

` 4What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Thev combination ofthe levervQf bolt-bearer D, bolt E, and link F, in connection with the buler A and coupling-frame '13, secured tothe car by thc""boltH,` all constructed and arranged asv described, and for the purpose specified. v

WILLIAM S. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

EDMD. COOPER, ROBERT P. FRIERSQN. 

